Sentence examples for child thing from inspiring English sources

"You know, I was just looking for somebody who kind of did the 'only child' thing.

What made him think he'd want me for this?'" Fincher himself says he was looking for an "orchid", someone who did that "only child thing".

"There was definitely a kind of witch-hunt element to The Lost Child thing and it was about me being a woman.

'I have always been - maybe it is an only child thing - outward-looking.' Perhaps being an only child makes for a better journalist.

Several of my friends and family members have skipped the child thing (at least for now — although we talk about many things, I've long since chosen not to be among those who ask, "So, are you planning to have kids?").

"I think it's a parent thing more than a child thing," Michelle told me, in the queue at John Lewis, buying a strange toy that you squish in the shape of SpongeBob Squarepants (I'm taking a punt that her children aren't Guardian readers).

Once you have a child, things don't get much better.

Then in 1979, after the birth of their fifth child, things took a slightly different course.

Happy as a child, things turned pear-shaped as she entered her teens.

But because that balance is not the same for every family or every child, things can get thorny.

In Cameroon, if you can't breastfeed your child, things can get difficult.